If you're going to go the cheap route without having someone come onsite and consulting, I'd get a couple of the window mounted air conditioners that go for between $100 and $200 and a couple of dehumidifiers (which you'd have to empty regularly or hook up to a drain).
I'd also like to point out I know all the rules, but actually getting people to use all of them is pointless at this point in time. So I explained something, as I said, extremely over simplified, in the stead of being 100% accurate.
Also, to the AC, I'll be fixing that wikipedia article, thanks for pointing that out to me.
Okay, so I'm just another grammar Nazi. Okay, so this is at the bottom of the thread and will probably go unnoticed. That's fine. But I have to get this off my chest.
WTF.
worth of Hugo Chavez' email.
It's bad enough when people throw in an apostrophe for no reason when a word ends in s. I can at least see the logic. "Oh golly gee, this word ends in an s, I probably need an apostrophe." This is, obviously, not how you decide if an apostrophe is needed, but at least it's closer than what this person did.
For the uninitiated, the following is correct usage:
worth of Hugo Chavez's email.
At this point in the game of battling bad grammar and usage, I'll offer some extremely oversimplified rules for possessive apostrophe usage:
1. Regardless of what the word is or how it ends, if it's singular to make it possessive you add an apostrophe and an S. E.G. "the abacus's beads" or "the Nazi's obsessiveness".
2. Regardless of what the word is or how it ends, if it is pluralized by adding an S or ES, simply add an apostrophe to the end of the word to make it possessive. E.G. "all of the abacuses' owners" "the Nazis' collective obsessions".
Note: For my fellow Nazis who may try catch me on something: Abacus can be pluralized as abacuses or abaci. Also, please forgive any typos and use of passive voice.
I'll probably get modded off-topic for this, but I just made a new website (link in sig). The reason why I'm posting in the thread for this article is.. well look at the name.
And I just made this site too (well, remade). Majority of the code and html was written yesterday. Small universe I guess.
linux may make up around 2% (If I recall, that's the most recent estimation) of the desktop market, but that's usually not the target market for games. Does anyone know what percentage of gamers are linux users as well? (Regardless if they use linux for games or not)
Their goal has to do with manipulating light. In the long run, there is the possibility of the foundations of this technology leading the the development of an invisibility cloak. The immediate benefits are more along the lines of better microscopes and working prosthetic eyes.
I'm quite ambivalent about this. On one hand, fewer chipset makers means fewer chipsets to have to beg for specs for or reverse engineer. On the other hand, lack of competition may make the chip makers more lax towards following specifications and standards.
I suppose overall I don't feel good about this move. Can't really articulate why. This doesn't seem auspicious for us enthusiast builders who like to pick out individual components based on their individual merits. (In my experience, VIA chipsets have always performed nicely.)
So this thing is basically an updated version of the decTop ?
Depending on price, I'm mildly interested--assuming the bios is accessible and I can put my own version of linux on it.
I have a dectop. It's a nice little machine. Just wish it had usb 2.0, ethernet builtin, and mini-pci. Though I've heard rumors of a dectop version 2 that has all that. hhmm.
The government's contribution to linux: selinux. The government's contribution to windows: bureaucracy.
Hmm... Now I'm all for proprietary and and open source software cohabiting. Some things are better done as proprietary, others as OSS. But does this not seem like all the more reason to use something, in the very least, non-windows?
CD-Rs are not the same thing as stamped CDs. With CD-Rs you're lucky if they last 5 years. Stamped CDs, if taken care of, will last practically forever.
It's because we're all aliens from another planet that has a much more stable climate.
Or you can just think of it as a tree's "body temperature" versus its preferred climate. Like you said, 72 is good for humans because we can dissipate excess heat when needed. Human internal chemistry works best at around 98F. I suppose a tree's internal chemistry works best at 70F, thus they evolved mechanisms to regulate their temperature to that point.
It's not just an inconvenience. It'd cost Billions to convert to metric in America. There would be riots and panic (I'm not joking or exaggerating). Due to the confusion it would cause.
Example... "OMFG, GAS IS ONLY $1.57 (a litre)?!" Little do the American Morons realize that a litre is much less than a gallon in volume. (By "American Morons" I mean morons that are American, which there are plenty, not that all Americans are morons. I'm an American and am certainly not a moron. I'm a dullard perhaps, but not a moron.)
Think the same scenario with distances, weights, temperature. (I have a temperature of 37 degrees? I'm FREEZING TO DEATH!).
As much as I wish American would use the same damn standard as THE ENTIRE WORLD, it'd be too much of a problem to switch. Lots of places do list things in both standards. Some places list speedlimits in Mi/hr and km/hr. And I'm yet to see a modern car that doesn't show speed in both units.
Can't quite remember the term.. has to do with Anthropology though...
Basically it says we see the world and are the way we are because if we were different we wouldn't be here or see things the same way.
(I know, it's kind of like the "have faith" argument for the more scientifically/philosophically inclined, but it does make sense and weaken the "everything had to be perfect, thus it must've been God" argument).
I kid. But gojo is hella fun. The main programmer is working on porting it to the wii and has support for the wiiboard written (doubt that's in the main trunk though).
I'm not sure to what capacity you're thinking of opensource use in a business world. I suppose for workstations and servers? Besides these, there are many uses for opensource.
Tivo runs on linux. As does many smart phones.
Redhat is a multi-million dollar company and their main software product, RHEL, is available via the community project CentOS.
Support for opensource, depending on what software it is, can easily be bought. Not every opensource app is done by some guy in his Mom's basement. There are million-dollar companies developing and supporting open-source. If you're a seriouscompany, you use enterprise level software, whether or not it's opensource.
I work at IBM in the super lab testing those Big Iron servers.
I *have* to use a windows workstation. They used to allow RHEL based workstations but stopped a short while before I started working here. I test predominantly Linux (RHEL and SLES) and occasionally Windows. We had to test Windows Server 2008 aka Longhorn (which amusingly is identified as Vista in virtually every piece of software).
Regarding the Unix vs. windows workstations: Apparently the developers here use windows workstations because when I tried to install a Linux utility all the shell scripts wouldn't run. Being the savy linux user I am I quickly realized that all the shell scripts were in windows format (with CRLF for line terminators instead of just LF). They were getting ready to SHIP this software out to enterprise level customers, but luckily we caught it.
The church contracted and paid him to do it.
*snicker* I love that what is considered one of the greatest Christian artworks every made was a commission--not done out of passion or faith.
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I'm not trolling, honestly.
If that's what you believe and you're actually following through, good for you.
But I just have to point at (as Mr. W Bush has already allegedly pointed out with great disdain) the constitution is also just a piece of paper.
If you're going to go the cheap route without having someone come onsite and consulting, I'd get a couple of the window mounted air conditioners that go for between $100 and $200 and a couple of dehumidifiers (which you'd have to empty regularly or hook up to a drain).
I'd also like to point out I know all the rules, but actually getting people to use all of them is pointless at this point in time. So I explained something, as I said, extremely over simplified, in the stead of being 100% accurate. Also, to the AC, I'll be fixing that wikipedia article, thanks for pointing that out to me.
WTF.
worth of Hugo Chavez' email.
It's bad enough when people throw in an apostrophe for no reason when a word ends in s. I can at least see the logic. "Oh golly gee, this word ends in an s, I probably need an apostrophe." This is, obviously, not how you decide if an apostrophe is needed, but at least it's closer than what this person did.
For the uninitiated, the following is correct usage:
worth of Hugo Chavez's email.
At this point in the game of battling bad grammar and usage, I'll offer some extremely oversimplified rules for possessive apostrophe usage:
1. Regardless of what the word is or how it ends, if it's singular to make it possessive you add an apostrophe and an S. E.G. "the abacus's beads" or "the Nazi's obsessiveness".
2. Regardless of what the word is or how it ends, if it is pluralized by adding an S or ES, simply add an apostrophe to the end of the word to make it possessive. E.G. "all of the abacuses' owners" "the Nazis' collective obsessions".
Note: For my fellow Nazis who may try catch me on something: Abacus can be pluralized as abacuses or abaci. Also, please forgive any typos and use of passive voice.
And I just made this site too (well, remade). Majority of the code and html was written yesterday. Small universe I guess.
linux may make up around 2% (If I recall, that's the most recent estimation) of the desktop market, but that's usually not the target market for games. Does anyone know what percentage of gamers are linux users as well? (Regardless if they use linux for games or not)
Their goal has to do with manipulating light. In the long run, there is the possibility of the foundations of this technology leading the the development of an invisibility cloak. The immediate benefits are more along the lines of better microscopes and working prosthetic eyes.
I suppose overall I don't feel good about this move. Can't really articulate why. This doesn't seem auspicious for us enthusiast builders who like to pick out individual components based on their individual merits. (In my experience, VIA chipsets have always performed nicely.)
Depending on price, I'm mildly interested--assuming the bios is accessible and I can put my own version of linux on it.
I have a dectop. It's a nice little machine. Just wish it had usb 2.0, ethernet builtin, and mini-pci. Though I've heard rumors of a dectop version 2 that has all that. hhmm.
Unless you're using windows server 2008 as a workstation. But who the hell would do that, right?
right?
You've no idea how right you are.
I got to test Server 2008 before it was released to the public. All our internal applications identified 2008 as "Vista".
wow. that was an excellent post. Use of red and blue, Simple, poignant, complete use of the metaphor. *golf clap*
*The above post was actually sincere*
The government's contribution to linux: selinux.
The government's contribution to windows: bureaucracy.
Hmm... Now I'm all for proprietary and and open source software cohabiting. Some things are better done as proprietary, others as OSS. But does this not seem like all the more reason to use something, in the very least, non-windows?
CD-Rs are not the same thing as stamped CDs. With CD-Rs you're lucky if they last 5 years. Stamped CDs, if taken care of, will last practically forever.
That's what I said, but I said it nicer ;)
That would work but everytime a US congress (federal or state) attempts to begin the steps for conversion it gets shot down.
People are so hesitant and fearful of change.
It's because we're all aliens from another planet that has a much more stable climate.
Or you can just think of it as a tree's "body temperature" versus its preferred climate. Like you said, 72 is good for humans because we can dissipate excess heat when needed. Human internal chemistry works best at around 98F. I suppose a tree's internal chemistry works best at 70F, thus they evolved mechanisms to regulate their temperature to that point.
It's not just an inconvenience. It'd cost Billions to convert to metric in America. There would be riots and panic (I'm not joking or exaggerating). Due to the confusion it would cause.
Example... "OMFG, GAS IS ONLY $1.57 (a litre)?!" Little do the American Morons realize that a litre is much less than a gallon in volume. (By "American Morons" I mean morons that are American, which there are plenty, not that all Americans are morons. I'm an American and am certainly not a moron. I'm a dullard perhaps, but not a moron.)
Think the same scenario with distances, weights, temperature. (I have a temperature of 37 degrees? I'm FREEZING TO DEATH!).
As much as I wish American would use the same damn standard as THE ENTIRE WORLD, it'd be too much of a problem to switch. Lots of places do list things in both standards. Some places list speedlimits in Mi/hr and km/hr. And I'm yet to see a modern car that doesn't show speed in both units.
But is the swallow carrying anything? A coconut, perhaps?
Oh great, yet another reason to fear China.
Can't quite remember the term.. has to do with Anthropology though...
Basically it says we see the world and are the way we are because if we were different we wouldn't be here or see things the same way.
(I know, it's kind of like the "have faith" argument for the more scientifically/philosophically inclined, but it does make sense and weaken the "everything had to be perfect, thus it must've been God" argument).
Did they cheat and use this?
I kid. But gojo is hella fun. The main programmer is working on porting it to the wii and has support for the wiiboard written (doubt that's in the main trunk though).
Oh my. Where to begin?
I'm not sure to what capacity you're thinking of opensource use in a business world. I suppose for workstations and servers? Besides these, there are many uses for opensource.
Tivo runs on linux.
As does many smart phones.
Redhat is a multi-million dollar company and their main software product, RHEL, is available via the community project CentOS.
Support for opensource, depending on what software it is, can easily be bought. Not every opensource app is done by some guy in his Mom's basement. There are million-dollar companies developing and supporting open-source. If you're a seriouscompany, you use enterprise level software, whether or not it's opensource.
You have no idea how true this is.
I work at IBM in the super lab testing those Big Iron servers.
I *have* to use a windows workstation. They used to allow RHEL based workstations but stopped a short while before I started working here. I test predominantly Linux (RHEL and SLES) and occasionally Windows. We had to test Windows Server 2008 aka Longhorn (which amusingly is identified as Vista in virtually every piece of software).
Regarding the Unix vs. windows workstations: Apparently the developers here use windows workstations because when I tried to install a Linux utility all the shell scripts wouldn't run. Being the savy linux user I am I quickly realized that all the shell scripts were in windows format (with CRLF for line terminators instead of just LF). They were getting ready to SHIP this software out to enterprise level customers, but luckily we caught it.
The church contracted and paid him to do it. *snicker* I love that what is considered one of the greatest Christian artworks every made was a commission--not done out of passion or faith.